CS262a: Reading Assignment #20 Due Tuesday, November 4th

1. The Google File System. Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung. Appears in Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2003
2. Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database. Appears in Proceedings of the 13th Conference on USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2012

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Submit a summary for these papers.

Optional Reading:

• Bigtable: a distributed storage system for structured data. Appears in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2006
• The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems. Mike Burrows (Google). Appears in Proceedings of the 7th Conference on USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2006

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